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Candy Wrapper	By : KSipesh Category: Final Fantasy VII > Het - Male/Female Views: 1100 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 2- Candy Wrapper
I had started to wonder exactly where we were going to go from there. I was more than a little worked up myself at that point and would have done damn near anything he would have asked of me.

My question was answered soon enough when he pushed me back out to arm�s length and he looked away from me, panting to catch his breath.

"Vincent?" I asked, wondering what I�d done wrong to make him stop.

"I�m sorry," he whispered back, refusing to look at me. "I�I shouldn�t have done that."

My feelings were immediately crushed. "Why not?"

He turned and placed both of his hands on the railing and looked out into the darkness once more. Vincent�s cloak was up again, blocking his facial expressions from me. "I don�t do that kind of thing."

I wasn�t really sure what he meant by that. "Huh?"

"There was a point in time when I thought that I could be wanted like that, but I learned that such things�aren�t meant for me." His eyes closed and I somehow knew that a painful memory was playing itself out in his mind.

I leaned against the railing next to him, unwilling to let him slip from my grasp that easily. "You don�t think I wanted what just happened between us?"

His eyes cracked open and he looked over at me without turning his head. "Perhaps you were just caught up in the moment."

"Vincent�" I was at a complete loss for what to say. Just a few minutes ago I�d been so proud to have gotten through to him as far as I had, but now things had returned to this. I guess that bit about pride going before the fall or whatever was true.

As I continued to examine him, I saw the pain behind his eyes. I buckled and dared to ask the only thing I could. "Who was she?"

His eyes closed for a moment and he took a deep breath. Like the others, I�d heard him spout off occasional quiet comments about his failures or sins or whatever he called them and after what had just happened between us, the picture was becoming clear. There must have been a woman that had jerked him around so badly that he�d become embittered toward love. "You do not want to know."

Damn it, he�s shutting me back out, I thought to myself. My gaze followed his and wandered out into the night sky. I laughed to myself, once more kicking my own butt for having screwed this up. I�d had a crush on Vincent for a while and I�d been foolish enough to think that I�d honestly gotten somewhere. Vincent was now the most enigmatic and impossible thing on the planet, and it just made me want to get through to him more.

I felt his stare and looked at him again, seeing that he�d turned sideways to look at me. Somehow, I knew to keep quiet as anything I could have thought of to have said would have just been stupid or annoying to him.

Vincent�s head cocked to the side a little. "Besides, there is the whole issue of Cloud."

I raised my eyebrows. The fact that he thought Cloud was somehow involved with me made me smile. "Cloud? You think I�m involved with him?"

"Are you not?"

I outright laughed at his assumption, only realizing afterward that Vincent wasn�t the kind of person you should be laughing at. "No, no way. He and I have been close for a long time, but we�re not involved like that."

His eyes narrowed in thought, or maybe it was doubt, then again, it could have been both, I didn�t know. "He is awfully protective of you, Tifa."

I looked back out over the railing, as my heartache over the entire situation crushed in on me. "Yeah, I know, but we�re not together. We�ve been friends for most of our lives. Maybe I felt more for him than just that, but he never has and after all that happened with Aeris, I don�t think it ever will. He made things clear enough."

I saw out of the corner of my eye that he looked like he wanted to say something in return, but he seemed stumped. Surely I thought he was well on his way to figuring out what a complete idiot I was.

"You love him?" Vincent asked after several minutes, his voice barely audible even though he was right next to me.

I closed my eyes, remembering the way I�d felt for him years ago. "At one time, I did, but eventually I came to realize that he was never going to love me back. I know they always say stupid things like never give up on love or whatever, but I sort of did. I have a knack for only being attracted to men that will never want me, I guess."

"It�s not a matter of not wanting you, perhaps." Vincent turned to face me again, leaning sideways on the railing. "It could be that you tend to choose those who are too blinded by something else to be able to give you what you need."

"I don�t care what it is anymore," I was really upset now, and felt tears coming. "I�m sick of being alone."

"What did you want from me tonight?" Vincent asked me, as though he was honestly interested in picking through my motivations.

"To get to know you. To let you know that I cared and that I wasn�t like the others on the ship." I couldn�t bring myself to look at him at that point, and I knew I had blushed all to hell.

"I misread you, then." Vincent�s eyes betrayed the frown that must have been on his lips at that moment.

I couldn�t figure him out at all and it was killing me. "Misread me?"

"Yes." He crossed his arms over his chest, giving me one more signal of separation between us. "I thought it possible that you were seeking�companionship for the night."

Well, that�s not what I originally had in mind, but after the kissing, well heck, Vince, I would have been putty in your hands! I thought to myself. I guess my expression reflected what I was thinking because when I looked over at Vincent, he looked almost amused. I felt that I had to clear things up. "If you had asked for anything�"

No, I was too damned shy to go through with it and I clamed up. Sometimes, I really hate myself. I�d just made an awkward situation about a million times worse.

Vincent was now as confused about me as I probably was about him. "If we�re going to have to be together for the duration of this mission, then we need to clear this up. If I go back to ignoring you and in doing so anger you, then that will just be one more hopeless interpersonal relationship between a member of AVALANCHE and myself."

"Okay," I sighed, bracing myself to lay it all out on the line, "I like you, Vincent. I have since you joined us. I wanted to see if I could get you just to talk to me tonight, and the fact that it went a little further than that�well, I was all right with it."

Yet again, his eyes narrowed. "Why do you like me?"

I hate it when people ask you that sort of thing. Explaining almost instinctual compulsions has never been my specialty. "I don�t know, I�m just drawn to you, I guess."

"Do you feel sorry for me?"

He had me there. Vincent had my pity, and I knew he figured that I�d only allowed what had happened a short while before occur because of it. "Maybe a little."

"Don�t." Vincent looked away from me again. "I don�t want people doing things for me out of pity. I earned absolutely everything that has befallen me. I deserve what I�ve been dealt."

At that moment, I wanted so badly to go over and put my arms around him that it hurt, but I knew that if I�d done so, he would have left. However, I could see that he was potentially willing to let me in on the truth surrounding him and that was something I wouldn�t let slip by. "How so?"

"I am responsible for all of this, you know. All that we�re going through�I could have stopped this from ever happening." His voice had taken on a darker tone, revealing the anger and self-loathing that he suffered.

All I�d known about Vincent at that point was that he�d been a Turk close to thirty years ago, and that he�d been put into that stasis box by Hojo for some reason, and that�s where my understanding of Vincent Valentine ended. Learning more was, for the moment, far more important than seeing if I could coerce him back into kissing me again. I quietly asked, "How can you be responsible for all of this?"

Vincent�s eyes closed and he sighed heavily. I could see the pain wash over him again and it broke my heart. "If you truly want to know, I will tell you, but I�m going to give you a day to think about it, first."

I must have looked confused at that moment, because he answered my question before I even asked it.

"Because you may end up hating me." Vincent then straightened up to his full height and looked down upon me. "If you still wish to know tomorrow, come back after the others have gone to bed and I will tell you my story."

I knew at that moment that he was going to go to his room for the night, and that I wouldn�t get anything further from him no matter what I tried. I would still play the game his way-- for now. "Then I�ll see you tomorrow."

He nodded at me shallowly, and then walked past me, but strangely enough, he allowed his arm to brush against mine as he went by. For most people in most situations, this would have been just a meaningless accident, but with Vincent, it was more than that. He didn�t �accidentally� touch other people at all. For what it was worth, this simple momentary contact with me as he left might as well have been as significant as a good night kiss from anyone else.

A few seconds later, the door to the deck closed and I was left alone, frustrated and wondering what, if anything, Vincent was going to tell me the following night.

When I�d gotten myself under control, I, too, had left the deck and went below. The accommodations aboard the airship weren�t that luxurious and room was at a premium. Cid had taken the captain�s quarters for himself, and had assigned the rest of us rooms. Vincent had been put with Nanaki, Barrett with Cloud, and I had originally been placed with Aeris, but now that the other girl was gone, I had my room to myself. Yuffie also had her own room, as Cid had realized that assigning her to bunk with anyone would have just resulted in more theft by the supposed ninja.

So I went to bed, staring up at the ceiling, reliving the evening with Vincent again and again in my mind. I found myself anxious for the next night to come. I knew at some point that I�d have to go get more candy.
A/N- Well, you guys seemed to like the first chapter so I wrote this. If you guys still like it, I�ll keep going.
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